“You Would Only Need a Week”: How the Next Republican President Could Ban Abortion Nationwide
timnewman/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two months before a right-wing judge in Texas threw the legal status of the abortion pill mifepristone into limbo, a group of red-state attorneys general ganged up on executives at CVS and Walgreens, trying to stop them from filling prescriptions…
2022 Was a Particularly Deadly Year for Land and Environmental Activists
Eraldo Peres/AP This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In February of 2022, Colombian human rights activists Teófilo Acuña and Jorge Tafur were assassinated in front of their friends and families after decades of working to protect small, rural communities from mining and land-grabbing. Their killers have not been…
Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s Saga Is a Very Public Example of a National Crisis
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For more than a month, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) has been on medical leave, with no indication of when she might return to her powerful seat on the Senate Judiciary Committee.…
More Questionable Financial Revelations for Justice Clarence Thomas
Supreme Court Justice Clarence ThomasJ. Scott Applewhite/File/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Over the past two decades, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has reported on mandatory financial disclosure forms that he received hundreds of thousands of dollars in income from a real estate…
Here’s What You Need to Know Before the Fox News Trial on Monday
Tucker Carlson and Donald Trump chat at a golf tournament in July 2022.Seth Wenig/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Fox News luminaries will be taking the stand over the next six weeks, as Dominion Voting Systems’ landmark defamation case against the conservative media behemoth…
Rutgers Faculty Unions Suspend Historic Strike After Securing Major Victories
Rutgers faculty and supporters on the picket line on Thursday.Noah Lanard/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three unions representing 9,000 faculty members at Rutgers University are suspending their strike after reaching a tentative framework on Friday night with Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) and…